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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business
From the Speak Up Boldly Group, “In a twist that wouldn’t be believed in the worst TV movie, the surviving Koch Brother and Supreme Court shadow boss Leonard Leo are moving to crush Trump and his tariffs.”
A reader notes: Holy shit. I’m on the same side as a Koch Brother. This really is hell.
I hear you.  Imagine my dismay when I realized I was on the side of the ex-CEO of ExxonMobil, Rex Tillerson, secretary of state in the first Trump term, due to Tillerson’s opposition to the president’s policies.
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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Business

At left is a reminder that we Boomers are glad we made our money in the 20th and very early 21st Centuries, before the bulk of the corporate greed and corruption set in.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

When it comes to destroying the wealth of the common American, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

Re: the meme here, I’m taken by something art historian Sister Wendy Beckett said about the cave paintings that we found ~40,000 years ago:

“They show us that the people of the day worked hard, loved their spouses and children, and wondered about the unknown.  In short, they were no different than people of today in all ways that are important.”

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

We don’t need them intelligent, honest, or compassionate.

If this doesn’t sicken you, it should.

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Uncategorized

I’m proud of the mother of the author of the meme here.

In fact, a few readers have asked me about my mom, a Trump supporter and Fox News acolyte, and what she’s thinking at this point.

The truth, for better or worse, is that no one except for her will ever know.  She’s 98 years old and slowing down to the point that I don’t think it’s right to grill her on what she thinks of a president whose cruel and inane policies have, if nothing else, put a huge dent into the inheritance headed for my brother and me.

If she felt like talking about this issue in our calls, which we have every other night, she could certainly state that, after a lifetime as a Republican, even after the party ceased to stand for anything remotely decent, she’s withdrawn her support.

I don’t expect to hear that, and it doesn’t bother me one iota.  Each of us lives our own lives, according to our own lights.

by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

These words from senator Elizabeth Warren are worth considering.  What type of idiot believes that Trump does anything in the interest of the common American?

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Sustainability

For how long has the United States lost the trust of the other 205 nations on Earth?

I doubt it’s a finite period of time, like “a generation.” It’s probably conditioned on a certain set of behavior, and that could happen relatively quickly.  E.g., what happens when Trump is gone, and it’s clear to the world that the U.S. understands that it made a colossal mistake for which  it’s profoundly sorry?

How long did the world hold a grudge against Germany after World War II?

 

 

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

Glad to see that the “Walmart Blackout” is in full swing, but I haven’t been in one of their stores since I learned that their founders and key executives are Trump supporters.

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by craigshieldsPosted on Posted in Renewables - Politics

At left from a reader.

I’m wondering how many subjects I’ve changed my viewpoints on over the last 30 years. It would be hard to count them all. I doubt that the people who read my books would call me a hypocrite.

I also think about how many international social/economic/military conditions have changed since 1996.

Honesty matters.

 

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